#e-levy

The former Governor of Bank of Ghana, Dr. Kwabena Duffour has added his voice to the number of Ghanaians who are calling on government to cancel the newly introduced Electronic Transaction levy noting that it will increase the tax burden on Ghanaians. According to him because mobile money transaction is widely used in the country the e-levy will affect the Ghanaian populace directly. He went on to say that the e-levy simply means double taxation because already the ordinary Ghanaian is taxed on his income. “This…

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadu has called on Ghanaians to ignore all the noise from the National Democratic Congress regarding the E-Levy introduced to compensate the abolished toll collection. He strongly believe that the NDC despite all the noise they are making today will never cancel the E-Levy should they assume office in 2024. According to him one will expect the NDC to scrap the E-Levy off should they win power in 2024 but they will rather increase i. “When we were…

Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo has fired the ruling government for introducing E-Levy as part of the 2022 budget. According to the maverick lawmaker, the opposition National Democratic Congress MPs will vote against the E-Levy. Mr. Adongo who was speaking on the floor of Parliament said the E-Levy is a killer. “E-Levy, Mr Speaker; no matter how you call that thing, it’s a monster. It doesn’t matter the language that you use, it’s a killer Mr Speaker that will change the face of our…

Celebrated Ghanaian rapper, Elorm Adablah well known as E.L has described the government's abolishment of toll collection and compensating it with a 1.75% E-Levy is like falling from frying pan to fire. The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Wednesday, 17th November 2021, while presenting the 2022 budget metioned that government has decided to abolish toll collection but introducing E-Levy which will be imposed on all electronic transactions from GHS100 and beyond. ''We will not pay the road toll again but we will pay…

The Minister for Communications and Digitalization Ursula Owusu has said that the government of Ghana is likely to raise Ghs500m per month from the newly introduced E-Levy. She also mentioned that the government is also likely to raise over Ghs9 billion each year from the newly introduced E-Levy. While presenting the 2022 budget in Parliament on 17th November Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said that government introduced 1.7% E-Levy payable by mobile money users per transaction over Ghs100.00 as a result of the…